[SWLUG] Changing to a new distro

[Terry John]

Avoiding overwriting the /home partition is easy. Any upgrade should
give you the option of where you put the new filesystems but in case it
doesn't, to make it clear edit the /etc/fstab to comment out the entry
for /home.

When you do the upgrade don't create a filesystem for the new /home and
the upgrade it will just create /home under the / filsystem. When you
have completed the installation mount the old /home as say /mnt/temp
copy any info from the new /home onto it. umount /mnt/temp and remount
the filesystem over the top of /home.

Edit /etc/fstab to make it permanent and the job is done.

As always the more backups you do the better. How many of us do though?

:-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at swlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at swlug.org] On
Behalf Of Neil Jones
Sent: 19 March 2007 11:23
To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
Subject: [SWLUG] Changing to a new distro

I am currently using suse 9. I have my disk partitioned so that /home is
on a separate partition.

I am looking to upgrade to another distro. I was possibly thinking of
Fedora 5. 

I have 3 hard disks. One legacy  win98 that I hardly use and 1 linux.
The third is a linux for back up.

Does anyone have any advice they can give me about the following.
How do I, if possible, avoid overwriting the /home partition when I
upgrade? Will this cause problems?

Should I just copy everything onto the 3rd disk, unplug it, and do the
upgrade and then copy my files back?


Neil Jones
Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk


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